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This work demonstrates that reading poems silent and aloud involves two separate dimensions of understanding, and that unless we accept that "silent poetics" and spoken performance create tensions and ambiguities that can only be resolved by the readers' control of both experiences, we will perpetuate an inaccurate perception of how poetry works.Bradford, Richard is the author of 'Silence and Sound Theories of Poetics from the Eighteenth Century' with ISBN 9780838634356 and ISBN 0838634354.
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